ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1128, 21 August 1882, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Arabi Pasha wrote the following letter to the Hon. W. E. Gladstone a few days before ths bombardment of Alexandria, but Gladstone did not receive it until Admiral Seymour had done tho work ;—■" The Koran commands us to resist if wsr is waged against us, hence England may rest assured that the first gun she fires against Egypt will absolve the Egyptians from ell treaties. Thslr control will cease, and tho property owned by all Europeans will be confiscated, canals de■troyed, and a Jahad will be preached In Syria, Arabia, and India. The first blow with which tho English strike Egypt will cause blood to flow throughout all Asia and Africa, and the responsibility of which will be on tho head of England. Egypt is still ready to be a fast friend of Eng'and and keep her road open to India, but the must keep within the limits of her jurisdiction, and finally England may rest assnred that we are determined to flip for our country." Charles Dawson, M.P., was re-elected Mayor of Dublin. A plot for the assassination of Cardinal McCabe has been discovered. Tho counties of Cavan, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Sligo, Roscommon, Mayo, Tipperrary, Kilkenny, Waterford, Limerick, Cork, Clare, Kenny South, and Dublin, also the cities of Limerick, Cork, Waterford, Kilkenny, Londonderry, Gilray, Drogheda, two boroughs in Monaghan, and two in Armanagh, hare been proclaimed Under tho Repression Act, as it is feared another crisis is approaching. Viscount Monk who baa been appointed fourth Commissioner under the Aroars of Rent Bill for Ireland, and Thomas Hughes, M.P., appointed to the Vies-Judgship have b.-en well received.

In rioting between English, Welsh, and Irish, at Tredogor, Wales, many houses of the Irish people lyere wrecked. Miss Fannie Parnell, sister of Mr. Rarnell, the agitator, died at Bordortown, New Jersey, on the gOlh July, from paralysis. A large delegation of land leagtiera attended the funeral, Her remains are to bo removed to Ireland.

A Fwilau h|i«ru was felt at. WindnOf ( jetle on the 21iid, wlu-n nil h-ys from the

most important locks were found to be missing. SOO new locks for the entire building were immediately ordered. Colonel Braekenbury, director of criminal investigation in Ireland, has resigned, as he has had a difference with the Lord-Lieuten-ant, who did not agree with him in allowing the police to join secret societies in order to become informers.

The weather threatens utter destruction of what promised to be the finest harvest ever reapeu in Irelrnd. C. Mullen, one of the largest iron and steel merchants, Middlesborough, has failed for £150,000.

France is putting her navy on war footing. Nine thousand copies of revolutionary proclamations signed by Nicholas Constantinovitch, cousin of the Emperor of Russia, have been discovered at the "Ministry of Marine Department, St. Petersburgh. The director of the department committed suicide. Mrs Abraham Lincoln, widow of the exPresident, died at Springfield, Illinois, from paralysis. The British harvest prospects promise to be better than first supposed, everything now depends on the weather. A successful experiment was made on the Erie Railroad in running a locomotive entirely by Hydrogen gas produced by the chemical decomposition of water under the action of ignited Naptha. General Grant in giving his opinion concorning the Anglo-Egyptian trouble to a reporter sided with England, and said the people of Egypt were ten times worse off than the Negroes of South America. He believed English protection would help to develop the resources of the country and improve the condition of the people. Since the hot season bgan sixty-four ship captains have died with yellow fever. In different Cuban ports the trouble in Egypt and closing of the Suez Canal by order of Admiral Seymour, has given fresh impetus to the Nicaraguan scheme, and in the House the Committee of Foreigh Affairs has now brought under consideration a Bill which provides for the incorporation of the Mariiitime Canal Company of Nicaragua and embraces among tho names of Directors some of the leading capitalists of the United States.